he asked himself, trying to clutch at some bright memory as a man falling down a precipice clutches at the bushes.
— from The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

But two individuals have been singled out, as holding an important place either in the Evangelical narrative or in the Apostolic Church, who, it is contended, form direct and personal links of communication with this sect.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

For -didicī and -poposcī , see 860 .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Up, and to the office, where all the morning, and at noon, eating very little dinner, my wife and I by hackney to the King’s playhouse, and there, the pit being full, satin a box above, and saw “Catiline’s Conspiracy,” yesterday being the first day: a play of much good sense and words to read, but that do appear the worst upon the stage, I mean, the least diverting, that ever I saw any, though most fine in clothes; and a fine scene of the Senate, and of a fight, that ever I saw in my life.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

43-45, fresh definitions are provided for nos.
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi

At the slapping episode she flung an invisible "fork, dish, and pertaters" into an imaginary kettle, and glared; when the catastrophe arrived, she fell back upon her chair to express fainting; gave Christie's arm the "permiscuous grab" at the proper moment, and uttered the repentant Lisha's explanation with an incoherent pathos that forbid a laugh at the sudden introduction of the porcine martyr.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

Then Orontobates and Memnon, the commanders of the Persians, met and decided from the state of affairs that they could not hold out long against the siege, seeing that part of the wall had already fallen down and part had been battered and weakened, and that many of their 65 soldiers had either perished in the sorties or been wounded and disabled.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

The wise workman who directs the process is careful to perfect every tool before he puts it to use; the first desires are preceded by a long period of unrest, they are deceived by a prolonged ignorance, they know not what they want.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

For although there could be found no higher cognition, and therefore no objective proof, and although such a principle rather serves as the foundation for all cognition of the object, this by no means hinders us from drawing a proof from the subjective sources of the possibility of the cognition of an object.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Notwithstanding his seventy-one inches, he must still be fed, dressed, and put to bed by his mother!
— from Tics and Their Treatment by Henry Meige

She was fully dressed and prepared to go on deck when Tunis tapped at the slide.
— from Sheila of Big Wreck Cove: A Story of Cape Cod by James A. Cooper

In Rome he built the Palazzi Giustiniani and de’ Gori, and made the design for the Fontana dell’ Acqua Paola, though he did not live to carry it out.
— from Italian Villas and Their Gardens by Edith Wharton

After twelve or fifteen days at Pampeluna, where he received the best care from the physicians
— from The Autobiography of St. Ignatius by Ignatius, of Loyola, Saint

There is the story of Serjeant Wilkins, whose excuse for drinking a pot of stout at mid-day was, that he wanted to fuddle his brain down to the intellectual standard of a British jury.
— from Law and Laughter by D. Macleod (Donald Macleod) Malloch

It is now generally shown with a damask cloth securely held by the four corners beneath it, which for this purpose is deposited along with the vessel in a safe place where important family documents are preserved.
— from Lays and Legends of the English Lake Country With Copious Notes by John Pagen White

Gaul whose keel in far, dim ages ploughed wan widths of polar sea— Gray old sailor of Massilia, who hath woven wreath for thee?
— from The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Henry Kendall

Before Him let kings fall down, and princes prostrate themselves, and every knee of all people, nations, kindred, and tongues, be bent; for He is the Lord of heaven and earth, and besides Him there is no God!
— from The Pillar of Fire; or, Israel in Bondage by J. H. (Joseph Holt) Ingraham